We FoundedBlack Lives Matter5 Years Ago Today.We're Still GoingPatrisse CullorsHuffPost

...Right after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer in July 2013, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and I were devastated, we’d been following the proceedings closely. We’d watched the media criminalize 17-year-old Trayvon and humiliate his family to justify his cold-blooded murder presumably because his assailant was white-presenting...

...Exactly five years later, the Black Lives Matter movement is a quintessential example of a movement that's found successful amplification through social media. According to a newly released Pew study, the hashtag has been used nearly 30 million times on Twitter – an average of 17,003 times per day.

...The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead, Waller said police believe the man did not have a concealed carry permit for the semi-automatic weapon. He also had magazines of ammunition, Waller said.

...While police have not publicly identified the victim, Black Youth Project 100, an activist organization based in Chicago, said he was Harith “Snoop” Augustus, an African-American barber and father. Black Youth Project interviewed one of Augustus’ friends at the barbershop, who said he was a quiet and good man. The Chicago Sun-Times also identified the man as a barber known as Snoop.